Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-05
A FRIGHTFUL COLLISION.
Nineteen Persons Killed-The Train
Robbers Sentenced English
Ministry. Etc.
A DISASTROUS COLLISION.
Nineteen Persons Killed and Many Moro
Wounded.

Nineteen Persons Killed and Many Nor,
Wounded.
CLEVELAND, January "A wreck is re
ported on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
| near Tifin, Ohio. Nineteen persons ar,
reported killed.
TIFFN, Ohio, January 4.-The fast trair
on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at al
early hour this morning collided with al
east bound freight near this city, wreckin,
| beth trains. Nineteen bodies have beer
| taken from the wreck. More are injured
Three coaches were burned. Physiciani
have gone to the scene from here. TIL,
weather is very cold, the thermometer be
ing about degrees below zero.
LATER PARTICULARS.
TlFFlN, O., January 4.-The fast trair
on the Baltimore & Ohio Railway, which
left New York about 9 O'Clock yesterday
for Chicago, with five coaches and foul
sleepers, all well filled with passengers, col
lided with the eastern bound freight eeven
miles east Of this city about 4 O'Clock this
morning. The fast train was about fifty
minutes late and was running at the rate
OF sixty miles an hour. Passing Republic
. small station,
LIKE FLASH,
they rushed along to q curve one mile west
Of town, when suddenly the engineer saw a
freight train under full headway within a
hundred yards of him. He at once applied
the brake and reversed his engine, but it
did no good, and the next instant the
crash came, telescoping the coaches and
piling them upon each other. To add con-
sternation to
THE TERRIBLE SBENE.
A fire broke out in the smoking car and
soon spread to the other cars. Many
were killed outright while others were
wedged in among the broken cars. Slowly
the cars were consumed by flames. The
screams OF the wounded and dying were
heartrending, but no assistance could be
given until farmers, awakened by the crash,
came and, with other neighbors, worked
like heroes to save the perishing. At this
writing nineteen dead bodies have been re-
covered, and they lie disfgured in the snow
beside the track. Help was sent from this
city and Republic as soon as the news was
received. It is q fearful sight and recalls
the Ashtabula horror of the winter of IT.
It 10 impossible to give the names of tho
killed and wounded at this time. The
cause of the disaster is as yet unknown.
TIFFIN, o., January 4.-One OF the pas
sengers of the ill-fated train says the train
was the limited express which left Wash
ington at 10 a. m. yesterday. At 2:15
this morning he was awakened by being
thrown violently from his berth. The
train consisted of all engine, baggage car,
one coach and two sleepers. The train col
lided with the east bound freight. which
had just got started mile west of Repub-
lie. The two engines we're utterly wrecked.
and the coach telescopetl into the baggage
car SO violently that the two cars were
crushed into the space of one.
The two sleepers did not leave the track.
The telescoped cars caught fire from the
stove, and the mangled and crushed pas
sengers imprisoned in the shattered wreck
sHR1EKED IN AGONY
as the flames enveloped them. The engi-
neer and fireman of the freight leaped and
saved themselves before the collision. The
engineer of the express had his leg broken
and sustained severe wounds on the shoul
der. His fireman was caught between the
engine and tender and died in a few min
utes. The uninjured passengers and resi-
dents of the neighborhood set to work to
aid the wounded passengers in the burning
"a bs. The baggageman OF the express was
thrown through the roof Of the car, escap-
ing with a broken leg. The express messen-
ger, who was sitting beside hirn, was in.
,tantly killed. No one in the sleepers was
injured in the least. Among the passen-
lers in the sleeper were Mrs. Fish, OF oliet,
Charles. The shock was so terrific that the
armers in the neighberhood took it to be
In earthquake. In the confusion hot
dispute arose among the trainmen as to
;he
L appeared the freight was running on the
20 remark that he left the last siding with
,nly thirty pounds of steam; on the up
,rade east of Tiftin his train went back on
lin and his train was stalled. No danger
signals were sent out and the express, rum
ling at foil speed down grade and around a |
urve had no warning of the impending |
disaster until thecollision occurred.
THE CASUALTIES.
TOLEDO, January 4.-The total number
II passengers on the wrecked train was 65. !
Ten dead bodies were taken out and three |
IRE believed to be in the ruins. The names !
II the dead as far as identified are as fol- |
ows: F. C. BARLEY, Washington; William
Frederick, Washington; fireman OF the ex-
,ress, Joseph Osterman and two sons, of |
dartinsburg, w. Va. Mrs. Osterman
md two children were saved. The |
moker was entirely consumed and all the !
passengers in it we're killed. All the mail |
md express matter was destroyed. About |
dozen wounded have been taken to Re- !
'ublic, where they are being cared for by |
he citizens.
TWENTY-FIVE PEOPLE BURNED. !
TIFF1N, Janua ry At is now estimated |
hat twenty-five persons we're burned in !
he train wreck.